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repository

American  
[ri-poz-i-tawr-ee] / rɪˈpɒz ɪˌtɔr i /

noun

plural

repositories

  1. a receptacle or place where things are deposited, stored, or offered for sale.

    a repository for discarded clothing.
    Synonyms:
    depository, storehouse, depot

  2. an abundant source or supply; storehouse.

    a repository of information.

  3. a person to whom something is entrusted or confided.

  4. a burial place; sepulcher.

  5. Informal, repo.  Computers. a collection of stored data or software, or the place where it is stored, often a proprietary site in the cloud.

    The company hosts a cloud-based repository to help software developers store, track, and manage changes to their code.

  6. Chiefly British. warehouse.

repository British  
/ rɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ, -trɪ /

noun

  1. a place or container in which things can be stored for safety

  2. a place where things are kept for exhibition; museum

  3. a place where commodities are kept before being sold; warehouse

  4. a place of burial; sepulchre

  5. a receptacle containing the relics of the dead

  6. a person to whom a secret is entrusted; confidant

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Etymology

Origin of repository

1475–85; < Latin repositōrium that in which anything is placed; reposit, -tory 2

Example Sentences

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And Sultan sees growing adoption of the company’s Artifactory repository for software and code as something that can help the business going forward.

From MarketWatch

It was merged into Bitcoin’s official improvement proposal repository in February, meaning it is now formally under consideration by the developer community but is still far from being implemented.

From MarketWatch

Anthropic left a web repository unsecured, and a University of Cambridge researcher found an unpublished blog post about a new AI model that was particularly good at conducting cyberattacks.

From Barron's

Over a third of the repositories have received updates in the past month.

From Barron's

If the jury sides with Kaley, it would upset decades of legal and cultural precedent that have treated platforms as mere repositories of human nature.

From BBC

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